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CALL FOR
PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

Paper Submission
Deadline: March 12, 2012

DMIN'12
The 8th International Conference on
Data Mining
http://www.dmin-2012.com

as part
of
WORLDCOMP'12
The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer
Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada,
USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the
above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the DMIN conference
proceedings. The
proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute
for
Engineering
and Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and
others.) All
accepted papers will be published in printed
conference
books/proceedings
(the proceedings will also be available on
the web).

WORLDCOMP'12 is composed of a number of tracks
(joint-conferences,
tutorials, workshops, and panel discussions); all will be
held
simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012. For
the
complete
list of joint conferences, please visit the
website.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission of full
papers (max 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- two
days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July
16-19, 2012: WORLDCOMP 2012 and all its affiliated conferences
(DMIN'12 and
others)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC
sponsors of the last offering of
WORLDCOMP (2011) included research labs and
centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley;
Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University
of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota
Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of
Siegen;
UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research,
Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy
of
Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University
of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas
A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation;
Pico
Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing
for
Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent
Biological Medicine;
World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Int'l Council on
Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department
for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies
Corporation; and HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and
others.


SCOPE:

Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following:

+ Data Mining Tasks
-
Regression/Classification
- Time series forecasting
-
Segmentation/Clustering/Association
- Deviation and outlier detection
-
Explorative and visual data mining
- Web mining
- Mining text and
semi-structured data
- Temporal and spatial data mining
- Multimedia
mining (audio/video)
- Others

+ Data Mining Algorithms
- Artificial
neural networks
- Fuzzy logic and rough sets
- Decision trees/rule
learners
- Support vector machines
- Evolutionary computation/meta
heuristics
- Statistical methods
- Collaborative filtering
- Case based
reasoning
- Link and sequence analysis
- Ensembles/committee
approaches
- Others

+ Data Mining Integration
- Mining large scale
data
- Distributed and grid based data mining
- Data and knowledge
representation
- Data warehousing and OLAP integration
- Integration of
prior/domain knowledge
- Metadata and ontologies
- Agent technologies for
data mining
- Legal and social aspects of data mining
- Others

+
Data Mining Process
- Data cleaning and preparation
- Feature selection
and transformation
- Attribute discretisation and encoding
- Sampling and
rebalancing
- Missing value imputation
- Model selection/assessment and
comparison
- Induction principles
- Model interpretation
-
Others

+ Data Mining Applications
- Bioinformatics/Medicine
-
Business/Industrial
- Engineering
- Military/Security
- Social
science
- Others

+ Data Mining Software
We particularly encourage
submissions of industrial applications
and
case studies from
practitioners. These will not be evaluated using
solely theoretical research
criteria, but will take general
interest
and presentation stringer into
consideration.

+ Alternative and additional examples of possible topics
include:
Data Mining for Business Intelligence; Emerging technologies
in
data
mining; Computational performance issues in data mining;
Data
mining
in usability; Advanced prediction modelling using data mining;
Data
mining and national security; Data mining tools; Data analysis;
Data
preparation techniques (selection, transformation, and
preprocessing);
Information extraction methodologies; Clustering
algorithms used in data
mining; Genetic algorithms and
categorization
techniques used in data
mining; Data and information integration;
Microarray design and analysis;
Privacy-preserving data mining;
Active
data mining; Statistical methods
used in data mining;
Multidimensional
data; Automatic data cleaning; Data
visualization; Theory and
practice
(knowledge representation and
discovery); Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (KDD); Uncertainty management;
Data reduction methods;
Data
engineering; Content mining; Indexing
schemes; Information
retrieval;
Metadata use and management;
Multidimensional query languages and
query; Multimedia information systems;
Search engine query
processing;
Pattern mining; Applications (examples:
data mining in education,
marketing, finance and financial services, business
applications,
medicine, bioinformatics, biological sciences, science
and
technology,
industry and government, ...).


SPECIAL SESSIONS
AND WORKSHOPS:

All special sessions and workshops are part of DMIN'12 and
attendance is open to attendees of all conferences held at
WORLDCOMP'12.


Currently, the following special sessions are accepted
for DMIN'12
(this list will be updated):

1) Real-World Data Mining
Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives

see http://www.dmin-2012.com/special_sessions.htm for
details



SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are
invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the DMIN online paper
management system according to the instructions
provided at
http://www.dmin-2012/submission (please do not upload your
DMIN draft paper
to the general WORLDCOMP system).

Submissions must be uploaded in pdf
format by March 12, 2012. Papers
must
not have been previously published
or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the
paper should include: title of the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address,
and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the
name of the Contact
Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would
best represent the
content
of the paper. A 100 to 400-word abstract should
be included on the first

page as well. The length of the
final/Camera-Ready papers
(if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE
style) pages
including
all figures, tables etc.

Each paper will be
peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness (see
http://www.dmin-2012.com/review.htm). In cases
of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference
program
committee will be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional
referees by using
a
double-blinded review process. All proceedings of
WORLDCOMP will be
published and indexed in: Inspec / IET /
The Institute
for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography,
&
others.

All conferences will be held simultaneously; ie, same
location and
dates.
A link to each of the conferences can be found
at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org.

MEMBERS OF
WORLDCOMP PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being
finalized:
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 congress
included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof.
Hamid
Arabnia (ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor, University of
Georgia;
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board
member,
Journal of Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory Board, IEEE TC
on
Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy
of
Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University
of
California,
Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of
Ministry of
Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea
Information
Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on
Internet
Technology;
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof.
Winston Wai-Chi Fang
(IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor,
National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip
Research Center);
Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of
Creativity
Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy
Marsh
(Director
of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK;
Secretary-General WABT;
Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and
Technology, University
of
Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE
Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM
Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of
Aerospace, Professor,
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Member, National Academy of
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow;
Director, BISC; Professor, University
of California, Berkeley, USA).
2012
Publicity Chair:  A. M. G. Solo (Fellow of British
Computer
Society;
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and
Mathematician, Maverick
Technologies America Inc.;
Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo
Research Lab, Crocels, Swansea
University; Principal/Intelligent Systems
and
New Math Instructor,
Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program Committee for
DMIN is currently being
compiled. Many who have already joined the committees
are renowned
leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners
of high ranks;
many are directors of research labs., members of National
Academy of
Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
departments,
program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans
and
provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have
established a strong and
documented research track record. Those interested
in joining the
Program
Committee and supporting the conference should
send
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(cc to [log in to unmask]) the following
information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position,
complete
mailing address, email address, and a one-page biography that
includes
research expertise. It is expected that a Program Committee member
is
willing to support the conference, e.g., by reviewing approximately
2
to 5 papers.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

DMIN
is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a
symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12
papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track
chairs will be responsible
for all aspects of their tracks, including:
soliciting papers, reviewing,
selecting, ... The names of track chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in
the conference proceedings and on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed
in science databases as
such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions,
workshops, or symposiums) should
include the following information: name and
address (+ email) of
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100 to
200-word description of the
topic of
the track, and a short description on
how the track will be advertised
(in most cases, track proposers solicit
papers from colleagues and
researchers whose work is known to the track
proposer). Please
send an e-mail of your track proposal to
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(cc to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]).

We would like to
receive the track proposals as soon as possible but by
no later than January
31, 2012.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed
of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations,
tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
have included: Prof. David A. Patterson
(pioneer, architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of
Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR,
U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of
MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X
Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas
(Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of
WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of
constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and
practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to
participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The
congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography
diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a
spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This
model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields
of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing.
The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.

CONTACT:

Any inquiries regarding WORLDCOMP 2012
should be sent to:
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For DMIN, please have a look a the
DMIN website http://www.dmin-2012.com
or
contact [log in to unmask]


MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As of November 23, 2011, papers published
in WORLDCOMP set of
proceedings
have received 15,860 citations. In recent
months (March to November
2011),
there had been 1,475 citations to
WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations
per
month). The above record is
significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of high impact (based on
citations) of WORLDCOMP papers,
"Microsoft
Academic Search" has listed
each individual track of the congress among
its
compiled list of "Top
Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set
of
proceedings is in
fact higher than the citation data of many reputable
journals in computer
science and computer engineering. (The above
citation
data does not
include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in 2011;
thus,
it is
highly probable that the actual number of citations is higher;
citation data
was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
)


We
look forward to receiving your submission of your draft paper.

The DMIN
2012 Organizing Committee

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Dr. Robert Stahlbock

General
Conference Chair
The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining
(DMIN'12)
http://www.dmin-2012.com
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]

Part of The 2012 World
Congress in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied
Computing
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
July 16-19,
2012
Monte Carlo Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA